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According to attorney Jody Katz Pritikin, in an employee investigation, your employee’s attorney is geared to subvert your investigation and show its weaknesses. According to Pritikin there are a couple of the many ways that attorneys try to do this are as follows:

* “The investigation was not conducted promptly“

You need to start the investigation within one week, although starting within one day is ideal. For obvious reasons, delays cause hardship on the process and HR being unavailable is no excuse. You need to document significant delays and be able to explain them consistently and logically. Also, as a side note, the accused employee should be suspended WITH pay.

Make sure to have at least one person trained to conduct the investigation and include in your policies explanations as to how to make a complaint.